The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1887-05-07
MONTANA NEWS.

MONTANA NEWS.
Bozeman is developing a military com
pany brass band with twenty five pieces.
Steamboat communication is promised
soon between Townsend and Great Falls.
The New Idea is a new weekly paper
published at Corvallis, in the Bitter Root
valley.
The Dillon and Glendale base ball mines
have arranged for match game for $3.50
side.
Gov. Leslie expects to 60 east in few
days and return with his family in about
two months.
J.J. Cole & Co., fancy grocers Of Hell
ena, tailed last Saturday with liabilities of
about $1,000.
Thirty hogs were killed by a bear at the
ranrh Of Geo. H. Mullery, at Gorham, one
night last week.
A little lad named Larson was drowned
in the Blackfoot river, ten miles above
Elliston, Wednesday.
Forty thousand dollars Of court house
bonds of Lewis and Clarke county. were
recently sold at Il per cent premium.
Treasurer Berendes is out with card
warning the public TO look out for coun-
terfeit coupons of jefferson county bonds
On Friday of last week fourteen cars of
freight train were ditched near Gallatin.
Cars were badly smashed but no one hurt.
No more sunrise and sunset guns will
be fired at Montana military posts, the
government having discontinued the prac-
tice.
David Bedford, one of the oldest settlers
in Montana and after whom the town of
Bedford is named, died recently at the
territorial asylum.
Walter NJ. O'Dwyer, recently of the
Herald, Duluth, and an experienced news
paper man has recently assumed editorial
charge of the Great Falls Tribune.
Information is desired by Gen. Warren,
commander department Of Montana, of
the whereabouts of Patrick J. Cusick, last
heard of in March. 1886, en- route to Butte.
Two companies of cavalry and one of
infantry have been ordered from Fort AS
sinaboine to summer ercampment in the
Sweet Grass hills to watch for British In
dams.
A fire in Butte on Sunday night des-
troyed bakery and confectionery. By
we'll directed efforts the firemen confined
the conhagration to the two light frame
buildings and the adjoining property on
either side was uninjured.
Two companies of mllitia-eighty -four
men IN all--have been organized at Vir-
ginia City. The work of building up the
National Guard of Montana is progressing
very rapidly and seems to be attended by
much enthusiasm.
DR.. w. A. Byal of Miles City has be-
come suddenly rich by the discovery Of
oil on farm IN Ohio which he owned.
The farm, originally worth about $4,000,
was the doctors wedding gift from his
father. He lately sold the same for $44,-
900.
Gov. Leslie recently pardoned Jeremiah
Cokely, who was sentenced at the district
court held in Miles City in 1883 to seven
years Imprisonment in the territorial peni-
tentiary, for the killing of Patrick Dwyer
in the section house in Billings on Christ
eve, 1882.
The city election in Butte last Monday
resulted in the democrats electing their
candidate for mayor, city marshal and the
aldermen in the Third and Fourth wards
The republicans elected the police magis-
trate. city attorney, treasurer, and alder
men in the First and Second wards.
Thomas Mulholland met with peculiar
accident at the Bullion mine, Rimini, Sat
urday. He and companion fell with a
bucket 35 feet down shaft. He fell first
and his companion came down on top OF
him. Mulholland had both legs broken
and his companion was uninjured.